Pokemon Battles

I read Robin Rauzi’s review of “Pokemon: The First Movie” (“All’s Not Right in Pokemon World, Nov. 10) and I disagree with her comment about the theme of Pokemon that the whole competition between trainers “starts to look like cockfighting, or worse.”

In the cartoon, trainers battle their Pokemon not because they have a perverse joy in watching two creatures fight each other, but because it is part of raising their Pokemon, just like feeding or nurturing. None of the Pokemon get killed or permanently injured in the cartoon, and all the wounds they receive from a battle heal when they are brought into hospitals known as “Pokemon Centers.” In cockfighting, the roosters often get injured and sometimes even die. Pokemon earn experience and mature as they fight battles.

WILSON KURNIAWIDJAJA

Hacienda Heights